Gaëtan Picon (19 September 1915 – 6 August 1976) was a French author: essayist, art and literature critic, and art and literature historian. He was director of the ''
Mercure de France
The () was originally a French gazette and literary magazine first published in the 17th century, but after several incarnations has evolved as a publisher, and is now part of the Éditions Gallimard publishing group.
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'' and Director-General of Arts and Letters under
André Malraux
Georges André Malraux ( ; ; 3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs. Malraux's novel ''La Condition Humaine'' (''Man's Fate'') (1933) won the Prix Goncourt. He was appointed ...
. He wrote an entry for the Encyclopaedia Universalis on Swiss publisher
Albert Skira
Albert Skira (1904–1973) was a Swiss people, Swiss art dealer, publisher and the founder of the Skira (publisher), Skira publishing house.
The Skira publishing house, Editions d'Art Albert Skira
Skira founded the Skira (publisher), eponymous p ...
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[Gaëtan Picon. Skira Albert (1904-1973). Encyclopaedia Universalis https://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/albert-skira/(Accessed March 21, 2019)]
Selected bibliography
* Balzac: Balzac par lui-même. (1956). Microcosme ecrivains de toujou. Editions du Seui, Paris. 191 pp.
* Ingres: Biographical and Critical Study (1967) The Taste of Our Time, Vol. 47. Editions d'Art Albert Skira, Geneva 131 pp.
* The Work of Jean Dubuffet (1973). Albert Skira, Geneva. 233 pp.
* Surrealists and Surrealism 1919-1939 (1977). Skira/Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York. 231 pp.
* Birth Of Modern Painting (1978). Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York. 135 pp.
* Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1980). Published by Skira/Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York. 151 pp.
References
External links
Worldcat Identities
Gaëtan Picon, Overview http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n50019731/
1915 births
1976 deaths
French art critics
French male essayists
People of Ligurian descent
20th-century French essayists
20th-century French male writers
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